Python Finance Package v0.035 - Event study and market simulator Integration

Ok, here come the first “Real Life” example. As I mention on previous posts my finance knowledge is mostly null so I cannot say this can be used on real life but what I found playing with the utils I have created is very interesting.

If anyone use this techniques and win/lose money I would love to hear :P Also if anyone find discrepancies on the results please tell me.

Changes since last time

  1. Bug Fixes on Multiple Event Study: Missing values are now filled: forward and then backwards.
  2. Multiple Event Studies: Graph with error bars (std)
  3. Integration between the Event Study Finder and Market Simulator

Example

  1. Use the S&P 500 symbols from 2012
  2. Look in all 2011 for events when the value of the stock went below $5
  3. Discover how to use this opportunity to invest on the equities
  4. Simulate if we would make some money from that

1. Setup

In [1]: Imports

import os
from datetime import datetime
from finance.utils import BasicUtils
from finance.utils import FileManager
from finance.utils import ListUtils
from finance.evtstudy import EventFinder
from finance.evtstudy import MultipleEvents
from finance.sim import MarketSimulator

In [2]: Download all the information on 2011 of all S&P 500 equities on 2012

SP500_2012 = ListUtils.SP500(year=2012)
fm = FileManager()
start = datetime(2011,1,1)
end = datetime(2011,12,31)
files = fm.get_data(SP500_2012, start, end)
len(files)

Out [2]:

498

2. Event: Went Below 5 - One event per Equity

In [5]: Look for events

evtf = EventFinder()
evtf.symbols = SP500_2012
evtf.start_date = start
evtf.end_date = end
evtf.function = evtf.went_below(5)
evtf.search()

In [6]:

evtf.num_events

Out [6]: 5 Events where found

5

In [7]: Analyse the 5 Events

mevt = MultipleEvents()
mevt.list = evtf.list
mevt.market = 'SPY'
mevt.lookback_days = 20
mevt.lookforward_days = 20
mevt.estimation_period = 250
mevt.run()

In [8]: Graph the mean cumulative abnornal return

mevt.mean_cumulative_abnormal_return.plot()

The graph tell us that in average after the event (day 0) the return goes up, but what about the risk?

In [9]: Print the Cumulative Abnormal Return with Error Bars

mevt.plot('car')

Mean CAR with

Ok, the graph tell us that the risk is going up as the time passes, this was expected. Since we are looking the data in 2011 we can see what happen in reality.

We use the market simulator but we create the orders from the event list. The instructions are:

  1. On the event day: Buy 100 shares
  2. 20 days after the event: Sell the 100 Shares
  3. Initial cash = $1000

In [10]: Use the market simulator

sim = MarketSimulator('./data')
sim.field = "Adj Close"
sim.initial_cash = 1000
sim.create_trades_from_event(evtf.list, eventDayAction='Buy',
eventDayShares=100, actionAfter='Sell', daysAfter=20, sharesAfter=100)
sim.simulate()
sim.trades

Out [10]: This are the trades generated by the Simulator

symbol action  num_of_shares
2011-08-08   HBAN    Buy     100
2011-09-06   HBAN    Sell    100
2011-09-22   GNW     Buy     100
2011-10-03   AMD     Buy     100
2011-10-20   GNW     Sell    100
2011-10-31   AMD     Sell    100
2011-11-23   HCBK    Buy     100
2011-12-19   BAC     Buy     100
2011-12-22   HCBK    Sell    100
2012-01-19   BAC     Sell    100

In [11]: Graph of the portfolio value:

sim.portfolio.plot()
BasicUtils.total_return(sim.portfolio)

Out [11]:

0.501

I obtain 5 events and a total return of 0.501 with just 10 trades.

3. Event: Went below 5 - more than one event per equity

From what I saw on the events when one event occurred more events occurred soon (less than 20 days later), that didn’t look good for me that’s why I tried first with no repeating events. But from my computational investing course I notice that they use all the events so I tried that to: The code is the same just change this on the event finder:

evtf.search(oneEventPerEquity=False)

On this case I found 21 events with a total return of: 0.684; chart:

Conclusion

Also if anyone find discrepancies on the results please tell me.

First, I obtain a total return of 0.501 with just 10 trades; that means that the final value of the portfolio was $1,501. When I saw this I was amazed, just buying shares of very cheap stocks (100 stocks @ <$5 = 500) and then selling those stocks 20 days later was possible to make $501 in just 6 months. Even more if use the second event study.

Second, the utils works very well together and with a considerable amount of data, not just 2 equities as before.

Third, I am rich! weee! Ok no, not really. But the results are very interesting, at least I was amazed, I never believe of finding a return greater than 0.5.

The code + the complete example is on GitHub: PythonFinance

This is far from the end but the computational investing course ends with this example so I have no longer a source of inspiration, I am searching for book on quantitative finance to keep learning and developing the package.

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